Which module is the actual interface to FUSE from Python 3?

Question

I'm just starting to learn FUSE and I'm going to use it with Python 3 under FreeBSD and MacOS. First of all, I'm a bit confused which module is the actual interface to FUSE from Python 3 side:

• https://github.com/libfuse/python-fuse which is Python 2.x/3.x bindings for libfuse 2.x
• https://github.com/libfuse/pyfuse3 which is a set of Python 3 bindings for libfuse 3 using asynchronous I/O. It enables you to easily write a full-featured Linux filesystem in Python.

So, it looks like, the actual version of FUSE library is 3 and it seems, I should use pyfuse3, but that remark about "Linux filesystem" makes me wonder if I should fallback to python-fuse to work happily under FreeBSD/MacOS.

Answer 1

Well, that's what I found at the moment. In short:

• python-fuse is in the official libfuse organization but it was not maintained for some time. Now it seems there is a maintainer of the project, so I hope it will survive.

• fusepy is outside of official libfuse organization. It is a single file and uses ctypes.

• refuse is a fork of fusepy, and also uses ctypes.

• Also, there is pyfuse3 project which seems to be official, but no longer actively developed.

• Finally, there is another project python-llfuse which is recommended by Nikratio one of the libfuse developers. The python-llfuse project used to recommend pyfuse3, but not anymore. It is also no longer actively developed.

So, as there is a good-old-official version that has a maintainer now, I tried to start with python-fuse on FreeBSD. Unfortunately it appeared to be broken, so I wrote a quick fix to help building it on non-Linux OS.